LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

Foundation reverts to pre-lockdown BTL offering

Foundation Home Loans has returned its buy-to-let product range to its pre-lockdown structure with...

Mortgage Brain’s ESIS volumes greater than pre-Covid levels

Mortgage Brain has seen the proportion of ESIS generated by its sourcing systems for...

SortRefer reports record business levels

SortRefer has revealed significant growth and record business levels in June amid the Covid-19...

Annual house price growth in negative territory

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that UK house prices fell by 1.4% in...

The Beverley offers ‘bounce back’ mortgage deals for business owners

Beverley Building Society is offering its ‘Bounce Back' mortgage initiative featuring fresh criteria to...

Castle Trust launches ‘Covid-19 level 3’ criteria

Castle Trust Bank has introduced new criteria which is says is in response to...

Landlords “taking brunt of the pandemic”

ARLA Propertymark has reported that the number of agents seeing rent rises hit an...

BoE: mortgage lending remains weak

The Bank of England has reported that the mortgage market remained weak in May...

Phoebus Software raises £2k for charity during lockdown

In the three months since the lockdown started, staff at Phoebus Software Ltd (PSL),...

Estate agents “set for an exciting summer”

NAEA Propertymark has revealed that the average number of sales agreed per estate agent...

LMS: instruction volumes beginning to steady

LMS has published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the Covid-19...

The Skipton donates £200k to mental health charity

The Skipton Building Society, its board and colleagues, are donating £200,000 to support the...

Mortgage Brain: product numbers at “post-pandemic high”

 Product numbers increased last week to the highest level seen since the pandemic took...

FIBA pleased with BTL webinar series take-up

Specialist finance trade body, the Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA), has reported that over...
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COMMENT

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Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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Analysis

Help to Buy benefits skewed towards higher earners, IFS finds

Government-backed Help to Buy schemes delivered modest improvements in housing affordability, with the gains...
Homebuying

Buying still £500 cheaper than renting despite rates above 5%

Mortgage affordability continues to outperform renting despite rates pushing back above 5%, as lenders...
Property

Property auctions post strong March as sales and funds raised climb

Property auction activity gathered pace in March, with both sales volumes and money raised...
banks

Santander cuts higher loan-to-value rates for first-time buyers and movers

Santander is cutting rates across a wide range of higher loan-to-value mortgage products from...

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